(via Geeks Are Sexy)
Friday, July 26, 2024
Space Movie
Every space movie! 🍿 she seemed to do the zero g pretty well.Movies in space seem to follow a formula. This woman, I haven't identified her yet, plays all the parts and plays them well. (via Everlasting Blort)
byu/Random-Biker inbestoftheinternet
A First for the Olympics
The Olympic torch relay has been going on since April, when the flame was lit at Mt. Olympus in Greece. As the torch nears the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, the more prestigious the torchbearers are. The final torchbearers who lights the Olympic flame is a mystery, and it's always a parlor game to guess which host nation superstar athlete it will be by process of elimination.
French athlete Kevin Piette is one of the 2024 torchbearers. Piette became a paraplegic 11 years ago, and will compete in the Paralympics in tennis. He is also a "test pilot" for the French company Wandercraft that developed the Atalante X, a self-balancing walking exoskeleton designed to be used by people with disabilities. Tueday, Piette became the first Paralympian to participate in the torch relay wearing an exoskeleton. (via Laughing Squid)
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26 Customer Reviews So Funny, You'll Forget What You Were Shopping For.
The Creepy Beauty of Piñatas of Earthly Delights.
A Trillion Rogue Planets and Not One Sun to Shine on Them. (via Metafilter)
Hershey's unveils Reese's Pumpkins early for the first time. Get them by mail order, and pray for fast shipping.
5 Guys Who Used Their Last Words to Troll Everyone. It's likely they didn't know those would be their last words, but they were nevertheless clever.
This History Buff Found a Scrap of George Washington’s Tent at Goodwill.
Cheesemaking is a complex science – a food chemist explains the process from milk to mozzarella.
A Blast from the Past (2015): Remembering Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer.
Kittens Playing in Boxes
Before there was radio or TV, we used to sit around and laugh at the cat. Then we got movies, TV, and then the internet, and now we sit around and watch other people’s cats do funny cat stuff.
Cats love boxes, and kittens are playful, so a kitten in a box is a double delight! Enjoy this compilation from CrazyFunnyStuff. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Weapon of Choice
Fatboy Slim gave us an unforgettable video in 2001 with his song "Weapon of Choice" featuring Christopher Walken dancing solo through a Marriot hotel. Twenty-three years later, the students of St Wilfrid's Catholic School in Crawley, West Sussex, England, made their own version to celebrate the end of the school year. The star is their head teacher Michael Ferry. The school also posted a side-by-side comparison with the original to show how close they are.
The school couldn't compete with the expensive special effects of the original, so that's where having a volunteer chorus line comes in handy. This goes to show that there are still people having fun the internet these days. (via Metafilter)
Easy Summer Icebox Cake
The idea of icebox cake was perfect for the 1920s, when no one had air conditioning, and we certainly didn't want to fire up an oven to bake a cake in the heat of summer. But more and more people had their own icebox, or even a refrigerator. Recipes for icebox cake were good for selling newfangled processed foods and for selling refrigerators. The basic recipe is ready-made pastry such as cookies or graham crackers, layered with pudding and/or whipped cream, often with fruit and/or nuts.
In the video above, Claire Saffitz shows us how to make an icebox cake with plums and Biscoff. The printed recipe is at the YouTube page. But over the last 100 years, there have been as many recipes for icebox cake as there are cooks who don't want to bake in the summer. Find a roundup of those recipes at Metafilter, both in the post and in the comments.
Funny Bone
Did we name that bone in our arms the humerus because it's the funny bone, or was it the other way around? That's the joke, because the bone is not spelled humorous; it's just a homophone. Or a homobone, if you're being silly. We call that horrible feeling if striking our elbow "hitting our funny bone" because it feels funny, but it's funny/weird, not funny/haha. What we are hitting isn't even a bone, anyway, it's the ulnar nerve, which is very important because it connects our brains to our hands. But the strange placement of that nerve that makes it vulnerable to strikes is necessary for the way we move. Our dexterity comes with a cost. This TED-Ed lesson from Cella Wright explains what's going on in our elbows when we hit our funny bone.
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Jimmy Carter showing Secret Service how to properly jump over a fence.
The 10 Worst Comedy Movies of All Time, According to Roger Ebert. You may want to argue about number four. (via Fark)
How to Clean Your Vinyl Siding. It's easier than you think.
What to Know about Project 2025’s Dangers to Science. Project 2025 would jeopardize federal scientists’ independence and undermine their influence (via Kottke)
Why Plan 9 From Outer Space is Better Than Its Reputation Suggests.
Supreme Court Justice Roberts' Umpiring Academy. The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
How to Wake Up a Bassett Hound.
Star Wars Outlaws: Inside the Quest to Make the First Star Wars Open-World Game.
Korean Movie Theaters
What’s it like to go see a movie at a theater in Korea? It can be an experience you’ll never forget. While American theaters focus on simplicity in order to serve as many people as possible, a trip to the movies on the other side of the world can be as individual as you like. Get yourself some butter squid and beer, or maybe some cheesecake, and relax in a soft reclining couch… or even a bed! There is no end to the upgrades you can get at a movie theater for just an extra dollar or two in Korea. It can be as comfortable as watching a movie at home, except on a screen the size of an iMax theater. (via Digg)
Tweet of the Day
(via Everlasting Blort)When you turn to an exercise class and have no idea what you're doing pic.twitter.com/Ix2gipgEME
— B&S (@_B___S) July 14, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Clanadonia in Glasgow
Clanadonia is a band from Glasgow that plays the traditional music of tribal Scotland. They took their pipes and drums downtown for a free concert not too long ago. (via Everlasting Blort)
Old School Cool
Marco McClean requested the image that Brother Bill posted to reddit. They took it down from one subreddit, but it's back up on another. It was in late '82 or early '83 at my first radio station. The station had a "guest DJ" feature that invited local kids to come in and play a half hour of their favorite music on Sunday nights. My brother signed up for it more than once, brought his own records and friends, and it became a party. That's why they made a new rule that guest DJs could only play music from the station's library.
Marco also asked for an aircheck, but that might take some time to find my digital copies, listen to them, and figure out how to upload one.
Let the Bodies Get Off
Here's a song that confirms what we've always known, but rarely admit: the beat is the most important thing in a song. The latest mashup by Bill McClintock combines the hard rock of Drowning Pool and their song "Bodies" with the 1978 disco hit "Get Off" by Foxy. That's not all, because the bridge is from the song "Strutter" by Kiss. McClintock calls this "Let the Bodies Get Off" by Drowning Fox.
Burning Iron in Liquid Oxygen
Liquid oxygen presents us with a conundrum. When you expose a fire to oxygen, it burns brighter. When you expose fire to a liquid, it should put the fire out. And when you introduce something hot into something cold, the temperatures should cancel each other out, depending on how much substance there is of each. So what happens when you expose burning iron wool to liquid oxygen? The reaction is pretty spectacular.
Professor Martyn Poliakoff brings us another episode of The Periodic Table of Videos involving the scientific process. After the initial light show, he and his team tried to design experiments to find out exactly what was happening during the reaction. While they didn’t get the answers they were looking for, they learned quite a bit about the limits of lab equipment and the difficulty of observing unpredicted effects. Luckily, they keep a fire extinguisher handy. However, Poliakoff assures us that you can learn something even in failed experiments. And the footage was so cool that they couldn’t resist sharing it with us. (via Laughing Squid)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)How the term "horsepower" came into use for engines (1937) pic.twitter.com/4olonew9AQ
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) July 15, 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Tutu Academy
Imagine if aliens landed on earth to find out what residents of this planet were all about. If one were to land at a ballet school, he would probably enjoy the experience, but would leave with a skewed view of humanity. Before you know it, there would be green men pirouetting across the galaxy. Would that be such a bad thing? But the bigger question is, has there ever been a science fiction ballet before? Tutu Academy is an ad produced by Dean Alexander Productions and Design Army for the Hong Kong Ballet. (via Nag on the Lake)
Drink Safe
This sign is there for the benefit of people who read English, and will be bumfuzzled by the (expensive) child beer. (via reddit)
The Hallucinating Cat
Lily was permanently affected by toxoplasmosis, which left scars on her brain, and hyperesthesia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperesthesia which gives her perception problems and hallucinations. But she's sweet cat.
The Wolverine
National Geographic gives us a film about the wolverine. It is the largest member of the weasel family, but that's about all we learn about it, because the narrator got bored, so the film is unexpectedly short. The narrator is Deadpool, or actually Ryan Reynolds, who plays Deadpool. Is this really an ad for Deadpool & Wolverine, which opens this weekend? That would explain why the subject is a wolverine, but this was really released by National Geographic. It turns out this is an ad for a National Geographic show, and the Deadpool & Wolverine movie was just a fortunate opportunity for a collaboration that people would actually watch. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
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Toronto’s Talking Cop Car Is An Absolute Abomination Of Automotive Anthropomorphization.
Bananas Don’t Taste Like They Used To. Here’s Why. (via Metafilter)
Potato Power! How the potato changed the course of world history…twice. (via Strange Company)
Laws About Cats in Medieval Wales. They get really really specific. (Thanks, Brother Bill!)
5 Computer Tasks That Failed Because Computers Didn’t Exist Yet.
Fiction About the Art World Is Trending. Here Are 8 New Novels to Read This Summer.
The Kamala Harris coconut tree meme, explained as best we can. (via Fark)
Pantsula
A Japanese dance crew visits South Africa and learns pantsula dancing from local hoofers. (via Everlasting Blort)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)Beginner Bowling pic.twitter.com/af36s6u64O
— Enez Özen (@Enezator) July 15, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
A School Uniform that Grows
I read some research a long time ago that a micro loan to a man in a developing country is treated like extra spending money, whereas a micro loan to a woman gets invested in her dream and ends up benefitting the entire community.
An investment in a girl's education pays off in multiple dividends, for her, her family, and the larger community. We've known this a long time, but it still takes a spark to get that initial investment going. A woman in the comments said that when she was a kid in Uganda, she hated her school uniform because it was way too big so she could grow into it. The school systems vary among the 54 countries in Africa, but the girls of Togo deserve opportunities as much as anywhere else.
Wolf
He thought he had the day off Sunday. These pictures were taken only a few minutes apart. (via Digg)This is why you never let them know how close you are to work when you’re not at work https://t.co/0alSPLp5TF pic.twitter.com/Sv6WSJHzbd
— Whitney Harding (@WhitneyNBC4) July 21, 2024
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The 50 Worst Album Covers of All Time.
In the opinion of Rolling Stone. (via Metafilter)
Neanderthals didn't truly go extinct, but were rather absorbed into the modern human population, DNA study suggests. (via Strange Company)
Forces Outside of Our Control ...Or Even Awareness.
2,000+ Years of Dogs in Art, From Ancient Mosaics to Instagram Selfies.
10 Dos and Don'ts for Choosing the Best Front Door Color. It should be a splash of color to tell people where to come inside.
These jeans were left outside for twenty years. (via Nag on the Lake)
IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households’ back taxes. For years, the tax
agency simply didn’t try collecting sizable debts owed by 1,600 people
with annual incomes of at least $1 million. (via Metafilter)
Doctors Pulled a 2-Pound Hairball From a Woman’s Stomach. Be warned that there is a picture of the hairball.
Simon’s Cat and the Laser Toy
Simon Tofield thinks it’ll be a hoot to play with his cat using a laser pen. Since this is Simon’s Cat, you know it won’t turn out like he planned. Always remember that when a cat tries to catch the red dot, no one is going to stand in his way. Or even get his attention. (via Laughing Squid)
Tweet of the Day
(via Everlasting Blort)practice doesn't always make it perfect pic.twitter.com/c2jVytE06M
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) July 14, 2024
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Mega Man Goes Berserk
Wait, Mega Man is supposed to be a hero! That's not quite the case in "berserk"mode. Mega Man still has a mission, to destroy the evil robots, but in this case he has no inhibitions or morals, even using Dr. Light as a weapon. But who's fault is that? He's a robot, and can only do what he is programmed to do. He does break Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, but hey, it's just a game! You can't really win in this mode, as the destruction is universal, but it's entertaining while it lasts. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
Winks
Jessica Davis got a call from a veterinarian about fostering a needy cat. Jessica runs a rescue and adoption service for needy pets called Boomer's Buddies. She said sure, and thought it might give her something to do while she was getting over a breakup.
The cat she got came with one eye, a neck wound, a neurological condition, was FIV+, and looked like he was elderly and on his last legs. But he was only about three years old! Winks had led a rough life, and once he was in Jessica's home, he turned out to be the most affectionate kitty she's ever met. The foster situation failed, as Jessica also fell in love with Winks, and he is now her forever companion. You can see more of Winks at Jessica's Instagram gallery.
The Pettiest Feuds in History
Some feuds start with a petty slight that turns into a war of resentment, betrayal, backstabbing, and animosity that can last for years. Here we learn about ten personal spats that had long-term consequences of one kind or another. Some were instigated by things that might not be petty at all, like when a guy you love marries your rival or a war destroys your business, but that fact that it got our into the public means it got out of control.
This video has a 90-second skippable ad at 4:54. At that point, I had to abandon the closed captions, because they were way ahead of the video. Your mileage may vary.
Alpaca in the House
Cody is an undersized alpaca who thinks she’s a member of the family. Because that’s how Amber Isaac treats her. She’s been a house pet for two years, since Isaac took her in as a newborn when her alpaca mother wouldn’t care for her. Cody doesn’t look like your average house pet. Cody is as cute as can be! You can follow her adventures at her website. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Tweet of the Day
(Thanks, WTM!)The butterfly effect 🦋
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) July 15, 2024
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Saturday, July 20, 2024
Eggs in Movies
Patrick Tomasso made a supercut of people having eggs for breakfast in movies. Don't recognize all the movies? There's a list here. (via Neatorama)i cut together the best egg scenes in movies pic.twitter.com/uyROLhrRyn
— patrick. (@imPatrickT) July 18, 2024
The Story of "Money for Nothing"
Dire Straits released the song "Money for Nothing" in 1985 and it went to #1 for three weeks, becoming the biggest song of the year. But it also holds up well almost 40 years later. Ask anyone why, and you might get six different answers. It's got a great beat that you can dance to, a killer guitar riff, a story to tell, a hot cultural reference (for 1985), and Sting's unmistakable vocals parodying his own song. Oh yeah, and a video that was way ahead of its time. None of those things came about by accident. Well, some of them did. Actually, most of them did. We know that the idea came from an actual conversation Mark Knopfler heard in a store, but the rest of the song was a series of wild details. Imagine recording a song in the Caribbean, and what do you know, Sting just happens to be there vacationing that week. David Hartley tells the story of the many ideas that strangely converged into one song that become "Money for Nothing."
Polkamania
"Weird Al" Yankovic just dropped a new polka medley, but these aren't classic polka tunes. You'll hear polka versions of relatively pop songs like "WAP" and "Old Town Road" and "Thank You, Next." Not only that, but Yankvic recruited a slate of animators you may be familiar with to illustrate those tunes, some of them who came to his attention when they made Weird Al fan videos. I was hooked as soon as Cyriak Harris' unmistakable style led things off. Some of them snuck in references to other Weird Al songs that only true fans will recognize. You'll find a list of the songs and a list of the animators at the YouTube page.
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
I couldn’t decide for a while whether to use the actual name of this video (which I ultimately did) or use the YouTube comment “Wacky inflatable arm-flailing tube man!” Andreas Jörgensen, David Norberg, and Karl Flodin of Landfall Games came up with this game concept during Castle Game Jam. They are still working the bugs out. It starts out slow, with a slapfest, but ramps up quickly to pitchforks, arrows, and armies of fairly incompetent swordsmen. This could be as popular as Goat Simulator as long as they keep the out-of-shape warriors, the pitchforks, and the Xs in the eyes to indicate death. (via Digg)
Friday, July 19, 2024
The World's Weirdest Tongues
Tongues are quite handy across the animal kingdom. They give an animal control over what goes in its mouth, and humans have learned to use theirs for communication. Other creatures have specialized tongues that do some amazing -and weird- things. When I saw the title to this video, the first tongue I thought of was the woodpecker's. It's here, along with snakes that can smell in stereo with their tongues, and predators with tongues as weapons.
Ukrainian Survivor
Ukraine has been fending off the Russian invasion for two years now. In the early days of the attack, Borodianka, a town near Kyiv, sustained major damage. One apartment building that was completely ruined stood unoccupied for two months before journalist Kate Parunoy spotted a cat on the seventh floor! The poor feline had been alone up there for weeks. ZooPatrol enlisted firefighters to reach the poor pussy. A vet determined the cat was a ten-year-old female, who was weak but uninjured. A family claimed to be the cat's owners, but since they left her behind and never reported the lost cat, she was not returned to them.
The cat, now named Shafa, became a media sensation, and was soon matched to a loving home. You can see more of her at Instagram. (via Evolution is True)
A Dam Good Letter
In 1997, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality notified Stephen Tvedten that he was in violation of regulations because of two unauthorized dams built on his property, adn gave hi six weeks to remove them. Tvedten did not build those dams, nor did a named tenant build them. It was the beavers who did it. Tvedten was an expert on pest control, and had written several books on eco-friendly ways to manage pests. He knew his beavers. So he wrote a letter to the department in response. The letter did its job, and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality dropped the case.
The letter brought Tvedten some notoriety over the years, never more so than when Letters of Note published it in 2012. When that post went viral, MLive interviewed Tvedten, who said he was more famous for that letter that he dashed off in ten minutes than for anything else he's ever done. Tvedten died in 2018. His letter was selected for a Letters Live show in New York, read by Peter Dinklage.
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Something To Celebrate: Driver’s Side Cupholders.
The Boozy History of Baba au Rhum. The French are known for their pastries, but few desserts garner as much attention as this dried-out cake resuscitated with rum.
Carrie's Wedding Day. I think this has something to do with Sex and the City. (via Everlasting Blort)
You Can Now See The Wreckage From The National Corvette Museum Sinkhole Up Close. In 2014 a 40-foot sinkhole swallowed eight very special 'Vettes.
What Do Real Spies Think of James Bond? (via Damn Interesting)
Here’s what your pooping frequency says about your health.
29 Of The Strangest Mysteries That Were Actually Solved.
A Blast from the Past (2013): The Bloody Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family.
Do Mice Really Like Cheese?
In a word, no. But somehow we got that idea and enshrined it in our fables and pop culture. Simon Whistler from Today I Found Out gives us the lowdown. Someone told me long ago that it’s better to load your mousetraps with peanut butter. But I never had to compare the baits because I have cats. (via Laughing Squid)
Tweet of the Day
When the duct tape gives way. (Thanks, WTM!)How would you explain this one? 😅 pic.twitter.com/RcU4pYb8df
— H0W_THlNGS_W0RK (@HowThingsWork_) July 15, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Reckless Shout
Reckless shout
byu/crimson_dovah infunny
This looks like a game akin to Guitar Hero, but the sound... oh, the sound. The player is racking up points like crazy as he follows the screen directions, but the sound is more like a fifth grader who just picked up a trombone for the first time. Or a dying cow, who can tell? How do they get that sound? Commenters at reddit revealed this is the game Trombone Champ, and guided us to another example.
Aha! You use a mouse or a stylus on a trackpad to produce those notes. If you can call them notes. The game was developed as a parody, with plenty of in-game side quests and jokes, but the real fun is in trying to listen to it. YouTube is full of Trombone Champ clips, some surprisingly good, but most are in the dying cow category. This video at reddit is full of people wanting to buy the game now, so it's got that going for it.
The Turbulent History Of Boeing
The Boeing company has been around for more than 100 years, since William E. Boeing became interested in planes. For most of that time, the company was the gold standard in aircraft manufacturing. The Boeing company bought up other aviation companies any time it got the chance, and incorporated their experts into its research and development division. In the 1990s, Boeing acquired its most notorious rival, McDonnell Douglas. Many in the industry say that merger was the turning point for Boeing, although the general public wouldn't know for years. Boeing's corporate culture deferred to its engineering experts, while McDonnell Douglas was run to produce corporate profits.
Drama in the Kitchen
A dramatic recipe pic.twitter.com/G1JMz5W70H
— Nathan W Pyle (@nathanwpyle) July 11, 2024
Going Up Mount Everest with a Drone
This video from the DJI drone company lets you climb Mount Everest from the comfort of your living room, without paying the $100K or so cost that climbers incur and with no danger of dying. And it only takes four minutes!
The trip begins at the Khumbu Icefall just above Base Camp. The drone follows the South Col route, which is a bit tamer than the North Col. Now, the drone didn't do this in one trip, rather, many segments were stitched together. There are still limits on what drones can do in extreme cold. The latter part of the trip is a little disappointing because the drone camera focused on the ground instead of the peak, but it's still an epic journey. (via Metafilter)
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A Giant Polka-Dotted Pumpkin Takes Root in London’s Kensington Gardens.
Remembering the World’s First ‘Cold-Storage Banquet.’ At the turn of the 20th century, the concept of a refrigerated feast was terrifying.
Trae Crowder knows J.D Vance, and tells us about him in colorful, explicit terms. I, as a hillbilly, couldn't have said it better, because I am trying to watch my language.
You'll Be Shocked By How Much Sugar People Consume Every Single Day In Your State Even if it is less than other states, it's still too much.
Home Depot is already unveiling its new giant Halloween decor.
10 Great Olympics Movies. Watch a few to get inspired for the 2024 Paris games.
Peru: New images show uncontacted tribe dangerously close to logging concessions. (via Boing Boing)
A Blast from the Past (2016): 17 Species Named After Star Wars Characters.
These Carnivorous Worms Catch Bugs by Mimicking the Night Sky
You’ve heard of glow worms, but did you ever know why they want to glow like that? It’s a predator thing. Moths like it, see. This gets a bit gruesome, because, you know, it’s a predator thing. The takeaway for us is that colonies of glow worms make dark caves look like they’re lit up with stars, 24 hours a day. (via The Kid Should See This)
Tweet of the Day
This kitten caught a case of slapstick. (via Everlasting Blort)https://t.co/y9bc7Bf0jv pic.twitter.com/hNf0RKvrtK
— Meonk! (@majeliskucing) June 15, 2023
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Morgan Freeman, DJ
Morgan Freeman did a radio contest on The Electric Company in 1971. Sure, he got a wrong number, but ignored it because he has a reading lesson to deliver! (via Metafilter)
Korean Kids Meet Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Meeting Korean Kids is the most Humourous thing you'll see
byu/ShaanJohari1 infunny
Kids in Korea get a chance to meet a foreigner, and they have no idea who she is. The bandana marked her as a pirate, which is kind of true, since one of her middle names is Pirate. The full video without edits is here. (via reddit)
The Workout Paradox
The US is in an obesity epidemic. If you aren't obese, you are still most likely a bit overweight. How do we lose weight? For years, we've been told it's a matter of diet and exercise. More updated research tells us diet is much more likely to work than exercise, and Kurzgesagt explains why.
But that doesn't mean you can swear off exercise, far from it. Exercise may be only a minor factor in losing weight, but it's a major factor in just about everything else to do with our health. So if you want to lose weight, you'll have to pay attention to what and how much you eat. All of us need to exercise, no matter what our weight is, due to the constant expenditure of energy our bodies have. It must be channeled in the right direction. The length of the video is 9:19; the rest is an ad.
39 Facts about the Middle Ages
We love to study the Middle Ages because Europe a few hundred years ago was such a weird and busy place. You’ve got the fall of the Roman Empire, early written English, the plague, crusaders and conquerers, myths and legends, and the stuff that we use for our fantasy pop culture these days. John Green gives us some fascinating tidbits to add to our store of knowledge about the Middle Ages, in the mental_floss List Show.
Tweet of the Day
I'm surprised this much of it is done by hand. (via Everlasting Blort)Making basketballs… pic.twitter.com/sYEGMWoYug
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) July 7, 2023
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Thomas Dambo's Trolls
Danish recycling artist Thomas Dambo builds trolls. Not the kind that want to start an internet argument, but the classic forest trolls from folklore, in very large sizes. And he makes them out of recycled trash! Dambo has used tons of discarded material, the things we toss out without thinking of the environmental impact, to install projects in 20 countries. He also holds classes and workshops to teach others how to make art out of the things the modern world disposes of. The result is a friend in the forest to lure you out into nature. Check out Dambo's projects on his trollmap and at Instagram. (via Metafilter)
The Fourth of July Car Launch in Glacier View, Alaska
In the small town of Glacier View (population 375), Alaska, they've held a unique Fourth of July celebration since 2006. In midsummer, the sun stays out too late for fireworks, so instead they launch cars off a cliff and watch them soar through the air before crashing on the beach below. Of course, there are no drivers. The steering wheel is tied to stay straight, and the gas pedal held down somehow. Spectators gather perilously close to the landing area. This year's launch included a school bus, a police car, an RV, a Barbie Corvette, and a replica of the General Lee. This video shows only the car launches; you'll find a video of the entire show at Born in Space. A good time was had by all.
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